Stopped by stoplight.
Short delay to my commute.
Did it change my life?
Had the crew of the RMS Titanic been told , on April 10, 1912, the future location of the iceberg, where it would be on the night of April 14, 1912 and had their instructions been to hit it, it would have been a feat of navigation.
Over the four days of the ship’s maiden voyage, had there been any reduction or increase in speed or delay in response to a course change or had any one of a number of details caused the Titanic to be a few minutes faster or slower, the history of the world would have been different.
This can be said about almost anything, everyday, everywhere.
Was my day changed?
Was my life changed?
Because I was stopped by a stoplight?
“What do you think the mutineers will do, sir, when they sight
us?” asked Freeman.
The fact that Hornblower had unbent enough to give an ex-
planation of why he wanted to go about must have encouraged
Freeman to this familiarity; Hornblower was irritated, but most
of all because he had no thoughts on the matter.
“There’s no profit in asking questions which time will surely
answer, Mr Freeman” he said, tartly.
“Yet speculation is a fascinating thing, Sir Horatio” replied
Freeman, so unabashed that Hornblower stared at him in the
darkness.
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